How Can You tell?

[rayna340]

How do you know if someone has a major problem? This someone I know has started to talk to themselves in a very aggressive manner. They can be talking to you fine and then walk through the door to say the garden and start flailing their arms and having an argument with themselves. They come back in and act like nothing happened. Asked about it they say they don't know why they do it, they just do. It happens in the middle of the night as well. Up they get and shout and flail. Next morning, they don't remember. Standing at a bar when no one is talking to them they mutter to themselves. What is going on? Oh yes and they take exception to inanimate objects. Like the curtains. They don't like them so they wipe their hands on them. This is one of many strange actions. Anyone got any idea?

[lady cop]

sorry, i am so tired i can't write much, but please google schizophrenia there are effective medications for this condition.

[persephone]

Audio and visual hallucinations by the sound of it. Are they or have they been under stress or using drugs (even prescribed drugs) prior to it beginning.

I'd say go to the doctor, but only as long as the person is willing, you may need to have to explain to the doctor what you are seeing if the person isn't aware of it happening.

That will be the hardest part, convincing them they need to seek medical advice.

[john8pies]

This is difficult to diagnose from a few written lines, but could be anything from a simple thing like lack of sleep, too much alcohol, worry/depression to a complicated psychotic or psychiatric disorder. I sincerely wish you all the best in helping this person / obtaining treatment for them, and would also be interested to hear what diagnosis (if any) you are able to obtain for them.

[Agnes]

complete mental patient. i walk the other way. bye.

[koan]

A friend of mine's husband is schitzophrenic. He refused to believe that the voices he heard were not real or that his strange ideas were strange. He just thought we were part of the conspiracy. I spent a week talking him into seeing a pychiatrist then when he finally agreed the hospitals wouldn't admit him. (cutbacks) By the time we got him an appointment he wouldn't go. He said he was going to their GP but was lying. Scary thing is she has to let her kids visit him overnight (they broke up) unless she goes for an all out war in the divorce.

Also scary: he drives a semi as his job.

It can be very time consuming, mentally and emotionally draining, but if you care about this person try to get them to seek help.

[boo324]

My ex-husband is paranoid schizophrenic. He held complete conversations with himself. He was so sloppy "nice" one hour-with "oh my baby, honey lover" goochy goochy goo.....then he'd turn vicious, he never hit me, but he would scream so close to me that he would spit in my face, throw things at me-like mirrors, and show me how he was going to hurt me by crunching up his sunglasses into a tiny ball, etc. etc.
I never knew when it was coming-no specific cycle.
He agreed to go to Mental Health if I took him. I did and he acted very nice and told them all about what he think he does, and what I had observed about him. They agreed he needed help and started to make an appt for the next month. I told them that he needed help now because he was getting more and more violent. I told them that I needed their help now because I was scared of him. They wouldn't budge...."your appt is for next month on...."
My ex got so violent, threatening to throw the lobby couch through theri glass enclosure if they didn't see him right now, today. The intake workers got so scared that they called their security.
Security asked us to leave. I told him and the workers that I feared for my life, couldn't take him home and that there was no room at the hospital for him. They all asked me why I was so scared of my husband. I reinterated that he had just threatened to throw a couch through their enclosure and that they were fearful enough to call security-now how could I not be scared too?
The workers told me to just keep him calm until his next month appt! I said and what about him throwing our couch at me until then?
They told me to take him home and remove the couch from our home-"that it was the best advice they could give"!!
I attempted suicide and hospitalized for two weeks. When I returned home, he had left a note stating that he just had to leave me, he couldn't take my suicide attempt because I was crazy and he couldn't be around someone that crazy!!

That was three years ago. I am since divorced from him. Yea!!!

[devist8me]

You've described me during my moody days! (j/k)

I do that all the time! I argue with myself. then someimes i even hit myself on my head or my hand on the wall. Then after a while i foreget what i was even thinking about! Probably my bad memorie! But i dont think i'm skizto!

[imnice]

Geez skittles you got issues! how can any of you guys stand her!!